... their early years were much safer then today's and the young generation who are responsible for the decline of morality and increase of crime (Pearson, 1983). However, a letter written by Daniel Defoe in 1730 to the Mayor of London, not only proves that our society has always been characterized by a culture of fear and fascination about crime, but also suggest that panic over crime has existed in the past when he wrote: "The whole city...is alarm'd and uneasy...the citizens are no longer secure within their own walls or safe...in passing their streets...The citizens are oppressed by Rapin and Violence" (Defoe, 1730, quoted in Reiner, 1996, p.2) In counting the crime problem, quantitative evidence by the police shows that there has been an increase in reported crime, where by the year 2000 more then four million crimes recorded each year compared with 1945. (Introductory chapter 3.1 p.18) However, other ...

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